Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25
TRNNESSEE'S TAYLORS.
Governor "Bob" Says He and His
State Are For Pr0tection.."Alt"
Says the State is For Blaines
Three Big Brothers With Strongly Defined
Char acteristics and Moro strongly De
fined Political Preferences
Philadelphia Press.

ed campaign of the Taylor brothers o
Tennessee last year, when brother "Bob'
ran on the Democratic ticket and wa!
elected, and brother calf" headed The
Republican ticket and was beaten
Brother "Bob" is now Governor, and t
visit him in the Executive Mansion i.
good deal like attending one o.
his political meetings. Brother calf
calls there frequently, too, and wher
both brothers are found together, the con
versation takes an occasional contra
dictory turn, which at least is to be val
ued for giving both sides of q political
question. There IS another brother,
"Jim," who does not take an active part
in political talk, but who is as stout
solid ard good looking as either of the
others. Altogether they make q group
which must have given the old Wing
Congressman Taylor great deal Of sat-
isfaction.
Governor "Bob" looks to be the young.
est. He is tall, broad chested ami stout
enough to tip the scales some distance
beyond the 200 point, He has high,
broad forehead of genuine force and Ca
pacity, & light, clear eye and a good look
ing face, adorned with mustGche and
framed in with short side whiskers and
the tufts of brown hair that fringe either
side OF his shiny, bald head. lie talks
slowly, using good language and evil
IDENTITY thinking pretty carefully, and now
and then bringing in an expression that
has seen service on the stump
calf" is smaller and quicker. He has
not 50 intellectual forehead as "Bob,''
but he mas his perceptive faculties better
I i IN o
reader way of meeting questions. He
has symptoms OF the family badness, but
SO far manages to hide it by a judicious
arrangement of the few locks left. His
mustacbe is reinforced by q small bit OF
chin whiskers, but otherwise he wears &c
beard. "Jim" is an older copy of 'fBob;"
g solid, thoughtful man of a great deal OF
ability, and given TO expressing opinions
only when ne sees some necessity fol-
them.
TIE Governor and, in fact, all the
brothers are exceedingly hospitable and
pleasant, and when some political Cpin-
ions were asked for this evening agreed
to give them at once.
ALE SAYS THE STATES FOR BLAINE.
az think" said the Governor, respond
ing TO d question, "that the Democratic
party is in good shape in Tennessee. 1t
has been holding its own right along and
Will be solid for the next Democratic nOni-
inee for President"
at Will be for Blaine" put IN ALI,
after the manner OF man who is calling
another's attention TO G little mistake
another has made.
81 don't think it WILL went on the
Governor, as if il was part Of his regular
business to meet Republican Interrupt
tons 'It went 10000 against him in
the last presidential campaign"
"OnIy 70O0," corrected All, "and il
won't go any against him next year"
"Oh, now! 1t must have been 10, 000,"
said the Governor. But, as there are no
parallel columns handy to keep this
double interview unmixed, it is probably
better to let the Governor go on tempo
rarily alone.
81 can't see," said he, seriously,
'swhere the Republican gain is going to
come from in Tennessee. Senator Sher-
man, who was here Lately, has gone back
east and hsd talked about car
rying the st&te. He bases his
calculations, you say, on the
young men in the party, on the
increase of manufacturing industries,
and the feeling, coming from them, that
the protective tariff must be kept in
force As to the tariff, manufacturers
might as well rely on the Democratic
party as the Republican. l am g tariff
man myself. Tennessee is tariff state,
and / an free to say that | think the
sentiment is growing. l am not, how
ever, necessarily for the present tariff,
/ because in many ways it can be i'm
proved. | am for the protection OF
American industry by some tariff that will
protect 1t, end want TO be understood as
against free trade. East Tennessee is
strongly tariff, Middle Tendessee is in
favor # it to q less degree, and the free
trade feeling is pretty strong in the West.
l fought the campaign on that issue.
! found ALI on the stump talking for tariff
and education, and-wel, L got on the
same platform"
"And how about the educational bill?"
/ My position on that was used against
me, for you know here both parties favor
the bill, l was not opposed to taking the
! $4,000 600 it would give the state, be
cause the percentage of illiterscY through
out the country districts here is frightful;
! but wss agsInst the Blair bill with it's
provision Tor federal control of tie
| schools. That IS not Democratic. We
! uGbu LlC luOuGf 1Ol buC SOUItiy SCuOClS,
! but we don't need the national super
vision. The city and town schools in the
state, might adj, are as good as any in
! the Union"
CIVIL the prohibition movement make
any change in the parties?"
PROHIBITION OUT OF POLITICS
"Not here. It has been taken entirely
out of politics, you know, and is 20 come
up in September at a special election, at
which the people will vote Tor or against
a prohibition amendment to the Constitu-
ton. Tat will not mix up with any reg
uar election, and in one way or the other
will settle the question for six years TO
come. The prohibitionlsts have already
begun some active work in favor of the
amendment, but the liquor men are still
quiet, and | could not give q guess at the
way it viii 90. My own opinion is that
no prohibition amendment is going to be
thoroughly effective except one to the
national constitution. State prohibition
won't do much good with the other states
selling beside them"
CHOW does Cleveland please the Ten
nessee Democrats?" was asked.
every we'll He'll be nominated again
for the reason tina. the party can't do
anything else than nominate him. They
can't say that their first national admins
trstion was failure, and that they don't.
want it repeated. l tell you," with en-
phasis, "they can't do anything bat
nominate him. Anyone else is out of the
question"
"Then his civil service reform has
pleased your"
The Governor got little impatient.